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specks and bars of black at wide intervals, inner secondaries like 

 the back. Chin and upper throat dull buff or brownish white, 

 the underneck the same streaked with black and buff sides of 

 head like throat but streaked finely with black ; lower throat and 

 breast dull pale buff, the former streaked and the latter barred 

 with black. The centre of the breast is generall}^ nearly white, 

 as is the loM^er breast, and the bars are wider apart. Under the 

 wing the buff extends down the breast for some two or more 

 inches ; remainder of underparts, flanks and underwing coverts 

 white ; some of the feathers of the flanks with black shafts and 

 here and there a black spot. 



Male in Winter. — Resembles the female but the vermiculations 

 are finer and the black markings less bold. The black crescentic 

 marks on the lower breast are also less defined and regular. 



Young. — " General distinguishable from the adult b}^ the greater 

 amount of barring on the chest, by the more profuse barring on 

 the upper tail-coverts and the sandy frecklings of the primary 

 coverts." (Sharpe). 



In this species, unlike Otis tarda, there is little difference in size 

 between the sexes, and whereas in that bird the male greatly 

 exceeds the female, in this the male, though it averages heavier 

 and a little bigger, is not apparently so. Hume says in regard to 

 Indian birds, " I do not find the sexes differ materially, although 

 the males unquestionably average rather larger and are perceptibh" 

 heavier." 



" The following are dimensions, etc., recorded of Indian speci- 

 mens : — Length 17 to 19 inches; expanse 33"5 to 36 ; wing 

 9-5 to 10-1 ; tail 4 to 5 ; tarsus 2-2 to 2*66 ; bill from gape 1*5 to 

 1-6; weight 1-5 to 2 lbs." 



" The colours of the soft parts vary a good deal ; the legs and 

 feet are yellow, dusky yellow, greenish yellow, the feet often 

 browner and dingier ; the bill is blackish, greenish black, dusky 

 horny or brown, generally paler on culmen, and bluish grey, 

 greenish or yellowish at the base and the irides varj- from light 

 yellow to orange." 



J. F. Naumann says the ii ides of the young are brownish yellow. 



Sharpe notes some curious measurements in the Catalogue, he 



